Word Meanings - PAINSTAKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.

• Doubtful
  Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
• Dog-rose
  A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
• Dozen
  of Dozen
• Dominie
  A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
• Dorture
  A dormitory.
• Docquet
  See Docket.
• Dough-baked
  Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding.
• Dogwatch
  A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.
• DODIPATEDODIPOLL
  A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.
• Donatary
  See Donatory.
• Dotting
  of Dot
• Doctrinarianism
  The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.
• Dour
  Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
• Dole
  grief; sorrow; lamentation.
• DOGSTAR
  Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, a Canis Majoris. See Dog days.
• Doni
  A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon.
• Dottard
  An old, decayed tree.
• Dodecahedron
  A solid having twelve faces.
• Dover's Powder
  A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of pot
• Do-little
  One who performs little though professing much.

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